Do you have polishes that you don’t write about, simply because your photos of it don’t do it justice? Every Month is Oktoberfest used to be one of those polishes for me, up until now. Three years after OPI released it, I finally managed to take photos of it that reflects what I see with my own eyes when I look down at my nails. The base is dark blue with a hint of purple in it, and then it’s stuffed with red shimmer that makes off to be red or purple depending on the lighting.

This manicure is three thin coats that dried quickly after I topped them off with my go-to top coat from Poshé.

While I don’t understand why Orly has released this polish with two different names (Royal Velvet is a spot on dupe), I really enjoyed wearing Mysterious Curse. Sometimes the purple base and blue shimmer gives off the impression of the polish to be duochromatic, and other times it just looks like a blue shimmer.

I’m wearing three thin coats in these pictures, and the polish had a fair drying time.

Frozen in Time by Misa has a slightly dusty tone of lavender, and is stuffed with pink shimmer. Even though the shimmer isn’t really visible in what I consider normal lighting conditions, it surely adds a bit of dimension to the polish.

I’ve used three thin coats of color for these manicure, and I have to say I quite liked the formula. Easy to work with and an okay drying time.

I’ve been stuck in a bad rut for the last year or so, but I haven’t given blogging up. At least not in my mind. I know the posts are sporadic, but I’m still hoping for an improvement in my mental state that makes blogging a part of my every day life again.

Yara is a smoky olive green with irregularly shaped and sized gold glitter. In the pictures above, it’s two coats of a nice and smooth formula that I kind of expect when I pull my bottles of Zoya out. I also applied a fast drying top coat from Poshé, and the manicure dried quickly.

What was meant to be a red, vampy manicure turned out to be China Glaze Classic Camel instead. Weird how some things turn out sometimes, huh? I painted three coats with the okayish formula, and actually ended up to like wearing it a lot (a LOT) more than I was expecting. I guess the tan nude with gold shimmer could be tagged classic, but also a bit odd and unique.

Time to try to get in to blogging again, and I’m doing so by posting three pictures of a polish that Sminkan gifted to me when I had my birthday last year; Darling Diva Polish ‘Cuda. I painted this beautiful glitter in three coats and I can’t say much other than that I find ‘Cuda magnificent.